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List of Figures1.1 Histograms of the market value and the logarithm of themarket value for the companies contained in the Forbes 2000list. 191.2 Raw scatterplot of the logarithms of market value and sales. 201.3 Scatterplot with transparent shading of points of the logarithmsof market value and sales. 211.4 Boxplots of the logarithms of the market value for fourselected countries, the width of the boxes is proportional tothe square roots of the number of companies. 222.1 Histogram (top) and boxplot (bottom) of malignant melanomamortality rates. 302.2 Parallel boxplots of malignant melanoma mortality rates bycontiguity to an ocean. 312.3 Estimated densities of malignant melanoma mortality ratesby contiguity to an ocean. 322.4 Scatterplot of malignant melanoma mortality rates by geographicallocation. 332.5 Scatterplot of malignant melanoma mortality rates againstlatitude. 342.6 Bar chart of happiness. 352.7 Spineplot of health status and happiness. 362.8 Spinogram (left) and conditional density plot (right) ofhappiness depending on log-income 383.1 Boxplots of estimates of room width in feet and metres (afterconversion to feet) and normal probability plots of estimatesof room width made in feet and in metres. 553.2 R output of the independent samples t-test for the roomwidthdata. 563.3 R output of the independent samples Welch test for theroomwidth data. 563.4 R output of the Wilcoxon rank sum test for the roomwidthdata. 573.5 Boxplot and normal probability plot for differences betweenthe two mooring methods. 58© 2010 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC